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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…[/quote]

For those who don't want to take the time to listen, I made a highlights transcript below:

Mark: This is an interesting conversation I can have with you. What are schools that when you see who they admit, rate it feels different than their admit rate? Because I have some on my list so for example, like Bates and Colby they present is single digit rates in regular decision, but I definitely see those schools take kids that you think a single digit admit school wouldn’t take. in regular decision. And Northeastern, I see Northeastern gobble up full pay families like you know they might send you they might send you to Mills out in California or send you overseas, but they’re not the 5 to 6% admit rates selectivity in terms of who I see get admitted there. Any thoughts on that?

Julia:  I am still perplexed by Northeastern, especially this year.  I was actually shocked at some students they took and they all had being full pay in common.

Mark: They’re clearly need aware. So they made a decision a while ago to say they’d meet 100% of need. Sometimes when a school maybe doesn’t have the highest endowment per student and all of a sudden they say that they’re meeting 100% in need, I’m very suspect Because, like what are you doing to get there? Are you counting all of home equity in your equation or are you denying? Are you so need aware need conscious that you’re just identifying those full pays to do it? And if you’re an amazing kid and you’re needy, like it’s a completely different standard? I’m not in that office, but this is what I see. I see I saw multiple kids this year that didn’t get in like Florida State in-state and then they get in Northeastern and they’re talking about 5, 6% admit rate.

Julia: ’s easy to apply because there’s no essay…I would say close to half of my students who apply if not more get some kind of an in, so they’re an admit, whether it be to a different campus like and you and whatever it is, but we are we are a lovely school, but we’re not that kind of school.  We should not have over 25 students getting into Northeastern if their admit rate really is that low.

Mark:  They do something to me which is really gimmicky. When they present their early action admit rate, they present the Boston statistics. They don’t count the Mills College or the overseas option. They don’t count those—the one semester or the full year abroad. They set those up so their a transfer pathway, and so  it’s just a really gimmicky thing to look more selective than you actually are.

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